ISLAMABAD: The alleged oppression of Hindus in Pakistan’s Sindh province has brewed up a storm in the country with the opposition Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) submitting an adjournment motion and asking for a debate on the matter.
Sherry Rehman said that Pakistan did not have a good track record as far as human rights records went and the oppression of Hindus by the relatives of the Sindh Chief Minister, Arbab Ghulam Rahim in Khait Lari, Tharparker would only further tarnish Pakistan’s image.
“It is very unfortunate that the Sindh chief minister’s relatives are committing crimes against the minority community with impunity at a time when President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz were trying to promote a soft image of Pakistan. We want to discuss this matter in house to expose the government’s double standards,” the Daily Times quoted her as saying.
The PPPP had also in its motion stated that it was a serious matter and needed to be discussed in the National Assembly
“It was a serious mater and needed to be discussed in the National Assembly because it could cause serious problems for Pakistan’s image internationally,” the paper quoted the motion signed by the eight PPPP MNAs as saying.
The motion said that Pakistan Human Rights Commission’s fact-finding mission to probe in to press reports that Hindus were being oppressed had revealed that a sizable Hindu community was being oppressed in Khait Lari, hometown of the Sindh chief minister.
no i dont think its not cause of their relegion, people are in Pak are opperessed on the basis of money and power they have got.
are rana chander singh? Behram d Avari, J Salik?? oppressed being minority??
human rights of all pakistani people are not in very right condition but its not focused only on minorities.
All minorities are oppressed by certain laws which are completey unfair and unjust. Many I think are also victims of prejudice and such. The minorities make up such a small group that they are all most nonexisistent.
Haris i think he meant that Avari is a minority but not oppressed.
The fact is that we do have issues with minority rights there is work to be done in that area.
However the type of ghunda gardee oppression that is being talked about has little to do with religion in this case and more to do with the typical vadera style ghunda gardee that has targeted anyone who is considered subservient by these dinosaurs of teh landlord and serf system.
Its shameful, and its sad that all these people are the power brokers of teh country, the bhuttos, palejos, jatois, bugtis..all these thugs
[Quote] "The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways." Nathaniel Bacon
[/quote] Poverty oppresses the spirit. In Pakistan majority of poor and honest people are oppressed including me, though I am not a minority. Issues can be simulated to make specific points. Like many people opposed and nominated for ban on child-labor some years back without working out reasons that force people to let their kids work at an early age. I guess no parents will ever want to let their kids work if they can manage to handle their needs themselves.
It is not about laws but about their implementations. Some laws may be said oppressive towards minorities, but there are some laws in favor for them too. Now people misuse these laws (not just minorities). Alcohol is banned in Pakistan for Muslims but minorities are allowed to contain it. Some years back it was tough for a Muslim to get alcohol, but with little relationship with some person of minority, they were getting it.
Politics is a family-owned business here so our politicians usually don't know about issues unless they are briefed about them. Even then they will only open their mouth on these issues until they are elected and then every thing remains the same. It is very obvious for someone following news to encounter situations where politicians have encouraged strange behaviors towards people of some minority or region.
[Quote] "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." Karl Marx
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Ahmadis are the sadest case of Minority oppresion in Pakistan. This is something all Pakistanis should be ashamed off. I mean, they too choose Pakistan, and yet they are treated worse then Christians and Hindus...
What these poor people need is some tender loving from the Pakistani sex workers currently making the Hindus of India happy. Tell them to wait for their turn, the Christians and Ahmedies of Pakistan come first.
Good Idea, :)
but Minorities need to attempt, to be treated by the so-called sex workers. Otherwise no one will be interested in searching out and treating them.
[Quote] Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Except for the ruling elite, their rellatives and friends, rest of Pakistan is oppressed one way or the other. Some are oppressed thru economic coercion, while others are marginalized because of their religion, race or sex (women).
It is true that Pakis do not have a very good track record of protecting minority rights, but then again when did the State of Pakistan hv a good track record for protecting rights of the impoverished, weak sement of the population or those who dared to demand their rights.
How many new Hindu temples have been built in Pakistan in the past 60 years? Before someone starts yelling babri, I can count thousands of mosques and churches that have been built in India in the same period.
Just some symbolic act of preserving one temple doesn't make Pakistan a tolerant nation towards religious diversity.
As you have accepted that Mosques are destroyed in India, I am leaving this point.
Now first of all,
India has 18-25% Muslims, and we only have about 1-2% Hindus here and even they are spread in areas all over the Pakistan.
Secondly,
Hindus and other minorities are free to establish their temples (or churches...). It is only if they are interested in building them or not. In India almost all the Mosques are built by Muslims themselves because they wanted to build them. Now if minorities are not interested in making them, no one else will build temples for them. How many Mosques in India are built by Hindus?
